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havel : changing horses in mid-stream

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Dave

A mixed legacy that seemed to be heartily leveraged to the idea of repression and suffering as a source for sublime aesthetics. A pretext for the literary creation formed by the ravages of the totalitarian state. To many it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged adam michnik, Christopher Hitchens, Edmund Husserl, Franz Kafka, jan svoboda, Louis Proyect, michael parenti, Noam Chomsky, Samuel Beckett, Slavoj Zizek, thomas masaryk, Tom Stoppard, vaclav havel, vaclav klaus, Viktor Frankl | Leave a comment

Havel enough

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Dave

There has been a lot of ink spilled for Vaclav Havel, most all of it favorable. He was deeply Western; acculturated to rock music and American culture in general, and a willing actor to boot communism into the dust-bin, greatly … Continue reading →